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Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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Post by infocollector »

londons_explore wrote: post #7

The November 2020 M1 machines are nearly getting to daily usability in Linux. Support for screen brightness adjustment, the webcam, speakers and mic are the remaining things for day to day use for me. All look like they should be working in 6 months-1 year. It's a bit of a shame that the RAM is so limited on all those platforms - I can't imagine it being enough to load many electron apps in a few years time.

I am waiting to try this on the 16GB RAM M1. M2's have 24G or more available. I think this will be my goto machine for Linux.

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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Post by Karsteski »

Thaxll wrote: post #8
spyremeown wrote: post #5

It's so comical to see a literal VTuber developer doing absolutely awesome work on an extremely high technical level, and better yet, on HNs frontpage almost every week. God bless anime.

The voice is very annoying though, amazing work none the less.

yea, I tried to watch her livestreams but I can't deal with the voice. Still though, very cool stuff

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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Post by Aissen »

Incredibly fun hack to make it work (start of the video): TLB flushing is a bit hard, so let's reset the GPU after each frame(!!!). And at the rate this advances, this comment will probably be obsolete in less than a week !

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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Post by unpopularopp »

Thaxll wrote: post #8
spyremeown wrote: post #5

It's so comical to see a literal VTuber developer doing absolutely awesome work on an extremely high technical level, and better yet, on HNs frontpage almost every week. God bless anime.

The voice is very annoying though, amazing work none the less.

Yeah the voice changer is crazy. Like the work and sometimes I peak the stream. Wish I could watch it with sound but it's unbearable after a couple of minutes.

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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Post by raffraffraff »

Thaxll wrote: post #8
spyremeown wrote: post #5

It's so comical to see a literal VTuber developer doing absolutely awesome work on an extremely high technical level, and better yet, on HNs frontpage almost every week. God bless anime.

The voice is very annoying though, amazing work none the less.

I've seen this channel before. I don't care what the content is, I can't listen to it.

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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Post by that_guy_iain »

londons_explore wrote: post #7

The November 2020 M1 machines are nearly getting to daily usability in Linux. Support for screen brightness adjustment, the webcam, speakers and mic are the remaining things for day to day use for me. All look like they should be working in 6 months-1 year. It's a bit of a shame that the RAM is so limited on all those platforms - I can't imagine it being enough to load many electron apps in a few years time.

> I can't imagine it being enough to load many electron apps in a few years time.

I honestly hopoe Electron has to improve it's performance or companies start moving off of it. It's honestly a bit of a joke at this point.

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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Post by gjsman-1000 »

Some added context: Many may be reading this the first time and wondering, What gives with the NVIDIA drivers (Nouveau)?

To put it simply, NVIDIA screwed third-party drivers by requiring a ever-changing encrypted and signed blob, hidden deep within the proprietary driver package, to be sent to the GPU every time it boots. Otherwise, you can't change the clock speed of your NVIDIA GPU from the boot clock speed, which is almost unusably slow.

The message from that is screw NVIDIA - not that third party GPUs necessarily are that horrible to implement.

Re: Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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Post by dis-sys »

This whole linux on Apple M1/M2 thing is the best proof that Linux is always a very good fit fort next gen hardware/software/developers.

new hardware, arm based apple silicon here, is now challenging the monopoly of x86. after such a long waiting, we finally have a mature alternative platform to choose from - and it is performance is pretty good.

new language, rust here, is getting its way into the linux kernel. this new GPU driver is written in Rust!

the work is based on the GPU hardware analysis of Alyssa Rosenzweig, who is a very talented young lady who started when she was in high school I think. the author of the driver, Asahi Lina, also seem to be very young.

Just amazing!

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